Al-Hassan Ag Abdoul Aziz

Evidence allegedly obtained through torture The defence claimed that trial evidence against Al-Hassan was tainted by his torture in Mali during the time that ICC investigators interviewed him. ICC personnel commented during his interviews that Al-Hassan's conditions were "like Guantanamo," and Al-Hassan informed prosecutors that beatings and abuse were taking place in his prison. The Trial Chamber denied Al-Hassan's attempt to have the evidence excluded. According to Georgetown Law professor David Luban, the Trial Chamber "rejected the defense's request for voir dire on the issues of fact (17–18), dismissed the reports of the defense's medical experts (48), and granted the Prosecutor's motion to exclude a defense submission containing a table pairing the Prosecutor's assertions with 'extracts of evidence which, in the Defence's submission, purportedly refute those assertions' (22)." Luban concluded: "The Trial Chamber's decision, in brief: we don't want to hear about torture or the shadow it casts on evidence. Let the tainted evidence in."

Al-Hassan was found not guilty of the war crimes and crimes against humanity of rape and sexual slavery. The ICC Trial Chamber found that the events had occurred, but that al-Hassan was not responsible for them. Al-Hassan was also found not guilty of the war crime of attacking protected objects.